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- The intellectual foundations for indexed mortgages have existed for a long time. The insight that financial assets tied to states of the world allow households to share risk goes back at least as far as Kenneth Arrow (1953) and Gerard Debreu (1959), and economists have been thinking about how to use indexes to facilitate these contracts ever since.2 The Bureau of Labor Statistics started publishing consistent, monthly, state-level unemployment rates in 1976, and the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight released quarterly, state-level, repeat-sales indexes for all 50 states starting 1. I thank Christopher Foote and Lara Loewenstein for help formulating this discussion, and Andreas Fuster and Joe Peek for comments. The views expressed in this comment are my own and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston or the Federal Reserve System.
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- Unclear tax treatment. Chief among these constraints is the ambiguity with which the tax code treats mortgage contracts that base borrower payments on changes in house prices. These contracts include both the standard shared appreciation mortgage (SAM) and its more complex variants, such as the continuous workout mortgage proposed by Robert Shiller (2008).
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